Oscilaciones en la temperatura de prácticas pesquero-artesanales: la expansión de la economía de capitales en las Caletas de Islas Huichas, Puerto Cisnes y Puerto Melinka, Región de Aysén; Chile

Abstract

In this work we see transformations of small-scale fishery traditional economy system as a kind of 
temperature indicator of the capital economy expansión. Thus, the major the change the greater 
the loss of traditional features, which is equivalent to a "cooling" of coastal communities because 
of the penetration of new technologies that are imposed without considering local conditions. 
This expansion condition practices in different degrees and forms, even in distant places as the 
southern-austral region of Chile. Nevertheless, it is important to underline that traditional small 
scale fisheries of Aysen are not only ‘cooling’ because of its internal dynamic, but also, and above 
all, for being comprised within a bigger economic and political context, with interventions and 
agency from different actors guided by divergent interests. Thereby, this scenario constitutes 
a territorial laboratory to understand the complex game of co-existing , competence between 
actors, practices and logics for natural and hydrobiological resources. We reviewed the 
intersection between global processes in small-scale fisheries settlements or coves in southern 
Chile, with particular interest in depicting ethnographically and ethnologically Islas Huichas, 
Puerto Cisnes and Puerto Melinka. In order to recognize both common and different elements and 
characteristics between these settlements, the ways of organizing production activities related 
to the sea and the involved management processes, three questions are answered: how small-scale fisheries are affected by globalization and technologization processes? What is the role of 
local knowledge and ecological factors in fishing activities? What role does the State have in these 
processes?